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The Upas Tree

CHAPTER VI
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Helen will await me there.

But why do you call it 'moated'?
We do not boast a moat." Aubrey laughed.

"I suppose my thoughts had run to 'Mariana.' You remember?
'He cometh not,' she said; the young woman who grew tired of waiting.

They do, sometimes, you know! I believe _her_ grange was moated.

All granges should be moated; just as all old manors should be haunted.


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